Isnīt myth bottlenecked by disk IO before CPU while recording?<br>For comskipping, I guess to cores will be enough, and for HD playback also.<br><br>Unless you have some kickass storage attached I think a dual will do.<br>
<br>/Henrik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2008 5:14 PM, John Drescher <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I read on the MythTV website that for HDTV, a good rule is 1GHz per tuner.<br>> If I am to put 3-4 tuners, shouldn't I have a capacity of 3-4Ghz? If you<br>> say that multithreading doesn't make good use of the second processor, then
<br>> shouldn't I go with the Duo at 3.0 so that the one core primarily being used<br>> can handle the potential of three streams?<br></div>It would take advantage of the cores in this case. I mean a single<br>operation generally will not make good use of multiple cores but
<br>recording on multiple tuners is one operation that can provided your<br>system can write to disk fast enough.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>John<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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